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the sense of the third paragraph, is not actively 

 accepted by many of those who describe them- 

 selves as religiously inclined : they seem 

 singularly careless of dogma, and exempt from 

 mysterious terror. Also, considering the inde- 

 pendence of their disposition, their energetic 

 temperament and healthful physique, I should 

 think that religion, in the sense of the second 

 paragraph that of feeling sinful and weak 

 would not express the views of many of them. 

 Therefore I look on the intuitive sentiments, 

 as described in the first paragraph, connected 

 with a philosophic frame of mind and a ten- 

 dency to active philanthropy, as the most likely 

 meaning of the phrase " religious bias," when it 

 is used without any qualification by my corre- 

 spondents, especially by those who are Unitarians. 

 In this sense, at least, there appear to be about 

 eighteen instances of scientific men who have a 

 decided religious bias ; being, I should estimate, 

 at the rate of two or more, in every ten ; but 

 I am not able to state with certainty how many 

 of these are religious in the sense of all the 

 three paragraphs. 



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